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„Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.“
„I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.“
„The bicycle is a city thing, virtually useless anywhere excepting on a pavement or hard surface of some kind. Without the road it would never have been invented. It is a little mad, both in design and purpose. Two wheels held together in a frame, with a simple mechanical system enabling a forward movement for one person.“
„I had long known that there was something about me that was either violent or frightening for some reason. In certain three-sided clothing store images I had for some years come upon myself, with shock and disbelief, regret, and shame, disappointment and despair, for I am indeed clearly violent, mad, and ugly, all because of intensity of some kind, a tension, an obsession with getting everything that there was to be got, a passion, an insanity.“
„I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant.“
„…the madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings…“
„…Carlo delivered what began as a panegyric and ended as an anathema…. His brother…regarded by the stupid and the wicked as a sort of imbecilic weakness, an infantile inability to come to terms with the sophisticated world of affairs. Because he was just he was to be seen as a quixotic madman, because he was virtuous he was to be taken for a eunuch, because he was magnanimous he was to be gulled and derided…. ‘There are many here today in this great modern temple of the Lord who have come not out of the piety of friendship or respect but following sickening forms of hypocritical convention, and among these are some that are soiled, bemerded, stinking with wealth amassed unjustly, wealth made out of torture and murder and the exploitation of human frailty, a precarious wealth as insubstantial as fairy gold, demon gold rather, that will crumble into dust at the dawn of the recovery of sanity and virtue by a great nation temporarily demented, an angelic land to its immigrants that is now set upon by the devils of greed, stupidity and madness…“
„The most sensational of all the sick literary lives was that of Maupassant, who died mad at forty-three and whose hatred of God, man and nature – manifested in literary productions which give us immense pleasure: how is that to be explained? – spring from a kind of mother fixation as well as a terror of the cold. He was a bull of a man much given to boats and riparian dalliance, but he had bad circulation. He had other things too, including a Chinese-style priapism which enabled him to copulate, usually in public, six times in a row, the secret being his failure to detumesce. This, of course, like acne and the common cold, can be a symptom of tertiary syphilis, which Maupassant certainly had.“
„The most sensational of all the sick literary lives was that of Maupassant, who died mad at forty-three and whose hatred of God, man and nature – manifested in literary productions which give us immense pleasure: how is that to be explained?“
„…in the Restoration period, feeling and imagination were mistrusted: feeling implied strong convictions, and strong convictions had produced a Civil War and the harsh rule of the Commonwealth; imagination suggested the mad, the wild, the uncouth, the fanatical. It was best to live a calm civilised life governed by reason. Such a life is best lived in the town, and the town is the true centre of culture; the country estates are impoverished, and little of interest is going on there; the country itself is barbaric.“
„Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing—and when I read what I’ve written it looks so calm.“
„Proud of my near-madness, as if I had attained a goal.“
„And they sayShe’s in the Class A Team.Stuck in her daydream,Been this way since 18.But lately her face seemsSlowly sinking, wasting,Crumbling like pastries.And they screamThe worst things in life come free to us.Cos we’re just under the upperhandAnd go mad for a couple of grams.And she don’t want to go outside tonight.And in a pipe she flies to the MotherlandOr sells love to another man.It’s too cold outsideFor angels to fly;Angels to fly.“
„Anita, I have just come the comforting conclusion that I’ll have to paint acres and acres of water color landscapes before I will look for even a passably fair one. After about ten attempts — I certainly have to laugh at myself — It’s like feeling around in the dark — thought I knew what I was going to try to do but I find I don’t — and guess I’ll only find out by slaving away at it. I feel — like a wreck — Have been working like mad all day — and you know how deliciously disgusted with every thing one can be — when the sun begins to go down — and one has been working ones head off all day. It gives me the sensation I used to have when I was a youngster and was going away from home on the train — It is a very special sort of sick feeling.“
„Mad smoke makes me able to quoteSoliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote.“
„Now all these new cats with they hats flipped backwardsfingers intertwined in sum gang sign madnessI got an exam lets if you pass itNow who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest?“
„It’s wiser being good than bad;It’s safer being meek than fierce;It’s fitter being sane than mad.My own hope is, a sun will pierceThe thickest cloud earth ever stretched;That after Last returns the First,Though a wide compass round be fetched;That what began best can’t end worst,Nor what God blessed once prove accurst.“
„We loved, sir — used to meet:How sad and bad and mad it was —But then, how it was sweet!“
„For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic “Just Say No!’ campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to “just cheer up”) have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.“
„We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.“
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